Eliel Saarinen

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architect designer human urban planner

Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish-American architect and urban planner renowned for his influential early modernist designs, including the Helsinki Central railway station and his work at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

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Label	Occurrences
Eliel Saarinen canonical	21
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen	1

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	architect ⓘ designer ⓘ human ⓘ urban planner ⓘ
birthDate	1873-08-20 ⓘ
birthPlace	Grand Duchy of Finland ⓘ Rantasalmi ⓘ Russian Empire ⓘ
child	Eero Saarinen ⓘ Lilian Swann Saarinen ⓘ surface form: Eva-Lisa Saarinen Heikki Saarinen ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Finland ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
deathDate	1950-07-01 ⓘ
designed	Cranbrook Academy of Art ⓘ surface form: Cranbrook Academy of Art campus Cranbrook Art Museum ⓘ surface form: Cranbrook Art Museum building Cranbrook Institute of Science building ⓘ Cranbrook Schools ⓘ surface form: Cranbrook School for Boys First Christian Church, Columbus, Indiana ⓘ Helsinki Central railway station ⓘ Kingswood School for Girls ⓘ
educatedAt	Helsinki University of Technology ⓘ surface form: Polytechnic Institute of Helsinki
employer	Cranbrook Academy of Art ⓘ
familyName	Saarinen ⓘ
fieldOfWork	architecture ⓘ furniture design ⓘ textile design ⓘ urban planning ⓘ
fullName	Eliel Saarinen self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen
givenName	Eliel ⓘ
influenced	Cranbrook Academy of Art ⓘ surface form: Cranbrook design community Eero Saarinen ⓘ
movedTo	United States of America ⓘ
movement	Art Nouveau ⓘ National Romantic architecture ⓘ surface form: National Romantic style early modernism ⓘ
notableFor	early modernist architectural designs ⓘ influential urban planning schemes for Helsinki and other cities ⓘ integrated campus planning at Cranbrook Academy of Art ⓘ
notableWork	Chicago Tribune Tower ⓘ surface form: Chicago Tribune Tower competition design Cranbrook Academy of Art ⓘ surface form: Cranbrook Academy of Art campus First Christian Church, Columbus, Indiana ⓘ Helsinki Central railway station ⓘ National Museum of Finland ⓘ surface form: National Museum of Finland (design competition entry and related work)
occupation	architect ⓘ educator ⓘ urban planner ⓘ
positionHeld	head of architecture department at Cranbrook Academy of Art ⓘ president of Cranbrook Academy of Art ⓘ
spouse	Loja Saarinen ⓘ
workedIn	Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States ⓘ surface form: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Detroit metropolitan area ⓘ Helsinki ⓘ
yearOfMigration	1923 ⓘ

Referenced by (22)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Eero Saarinen → father → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

General Motors Technical Center → architect → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

Saarinen, Swanson & Saarinen → hasMember → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

Saarinen, Swanson & Saarinen → foundedBy → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

Saarinen, Swanson & Saarinen → hasNotableArchitect → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

Saarinen, Swanson & Saarinen → hasEmployee → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

Loja Saarinen → spouse → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

Loja Saarinen → collaboratedWith → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

Loja Saarinen → partnerInWork → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

Eliel Saarinen → fullName → Eliel Saarinen self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen

Columbus, Indiana, United States → hasArchitecturalWorkBy → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

subject surface form: Columbus, Indiana

Des Moines Art Center → architect → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

Cranbrook, Michigan → hasArchitect → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

National Museum of Finland → architect → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

Florence Knoll → influencedBy → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

Saarinen → hasNotableBearer → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

Saarinen → parent → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

subject surface form: Eero Saarinen

Eliel → notableBearer → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

Helsinki Central railway station → architect → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

First Christian Church, Columbus, Indiana → architect → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

Kingswood School for Girls → architect → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ

Cranbrook Institute of Science building → architect → Eliel Saarinen ⓘ